[Logbook of the Newport (Steam barkentine), of San Francisco, Calif., mastered (in the following order) by William P. Porter, James Tilton, Hartson H. Bodfish, and G.B. Levitt, kept by Hartson H. Bodfish, on whaling voyage from 1 June 1892-26 Sept. 1898]

by: Newport (Steam barkentine); Bodfish, Hartson H. (Hartson Hartlett), logkeeper

Publication date: 1892

Topics: Knowles, Josiah Nickerson, 1830-1896, Leavitt, G. B., Porter, William P. S., Tilton, James A., Pacific Steam Whaling Co., Baseball, Bowhead whale, Children and the sea, Deserters, Naval, Indigenous peoples, Marine accidents, Medicine, Naval, Seafaring life, Voyages and travels, Whalers (Persons), Whalers (Persons)--Death, Whales, Whaling--California--San Francisco, Whaling masters, Women and the sea, Arctic Ocean--Description and travel, Herschel Island (Yukon)--Description and travel, Drawings, Logbooks, Minutes, Poems, Leavitt, G. B., Porter, William P. S., Tilton, James A., Pacific Steam Whaling Co., Baseball, Bowhead whale, Children and the sea, Deserters, Naval, Indigenous peoples, Marine accidents, Medicine, Naval, Seafaring life, Voyages and travels, Whalers (Persons), Whalers (Persons)--Death, Whales, Whaling--California--San Francisco, Whaling masters, Women and the sea, Arctic Ocean--Description and travel, Herschel Island (Yukon)--Description and travel, Drawings, Logbooks, Minutes, Poems

Collection: newbedfordwhalingmuseum; regionaldigitizationmass; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

Contributor: New Bedford Whaling Museum

Language: English

Partial log, kept by Hartson H. Bodfish, relating to whaling voyage to the Arctic Ocean; 1893 Aug. 21-1896 Sept. 4; Includes descriptions of types of whales (bowhead) and fur seals seen or taken, accidents and death at sea, women and children on ship, indigenous people, recapture of deserters, punishment on ship, and shipboard medicine and treatment of wounded man; and ink sketches, poems, minutes of meetings, and scores and statistics for a baseball league played at Herschel Island; Repository also has microfilm of the Log (Reel 912); Whaling vessel, out of San F

In the collection of the New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library